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Quotes About Failure

In the long run, any system that depends on your willpower will fail.
~ Scott Adams
over the years I have cultivated a unique relationship with failure. I invite it. I survive it. I appreciate it. And then I mug the shit out of it.
~ Scott Adams
Everything you want out of life is in that huge, bubbling vat of failure. The trick is to get the good stuff out.
~ Scott Adams
I have cultivated a unique relationship with failure. I invite it. I survive it. I appreciate it. And then I mug the shit out of it. Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don't let it leave until I extract that value.
~ Scott Adams
Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous presuccess failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do. The goals people are fighting the feeling of discouragement at each turn. The systems people are feeling good every time they apply their system.
~ Scott Adams
y lo interesante es que todas y cada una de ellas son un auténtico desastre.
~ Scott Adams
Passionate people who fail don't get a chance to offer their advice to the rest of us. But successful passionate people are writing books and answering interview questions about their secrets for success every day.
~ Scott Adams
And always remember that failure is your friend. It is the raw material of success. Invite it in. Learn from it. And don't let it leave until you pick its pocket. That's a system.
~ Scott Adams
My failure taught me to seek opportunities in which I had an advantage.
~ Scott Adams
A lack of fear of embarrassment is what allows one to be proactive. It's what makes a person take on challenges that others write off as too risky. It's what makes you take the first step before you know what the second step is. I'm not a fan of physical risks, but if you can't handle the risk of embarrassment, rejection, and failure, you need to learn how, and studies suggest that is indeed a learnable skill.1 As
~ Scott Adams
Our Father GOD is the measure by which we know the shortcomings of earthly dads and earthly clergy; for their vocation is to be His image on earth. GOD allows them to fail so that we might seek perfect fatherhood in Him.
~ Scott Hahn & Mike Aquilina
Maybe that's what Batman is about. Not winning. But failing, and getting back up. Knowing he'll fail, fail a thousand times, but still won't give up
~ Scott Snyder
Maybe that's what Batman is about. Not winning. But failing, and getting back up. Knowing he'll fail, fail a thousand times but still won't give up
~ Scott Snyder
Man spricht vergebens viel, um zu versagen; Der andre hört von allem nur das Nein.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is destructible Is but a parable; What fails ineluctably, The undeclarable, Here it was seen, Here it was action; The Eternal-Feminine Lures to perfection.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Instead of failing fast, consider learning early. I find that learning early creates a different mindset for me. I now create small, safe-to-fail experiments. I manage my ambiguity around the entire deliverable by creating small steps.
~ Johanna Rothman
Success is often to be found at the edge of failure
~ John Adair
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
~ John B. S. Haldane
Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.
~ John Belushi
Trials in this life will expose what is in your heart—whether the offense is toward God or others. Tests either make you bitter toward God and your peers or stronger. If you pass the test, your roots will shoot down deeper, stabilizing you and your future. If you fail, you become offended, which can lead to defilement with bitterness.
~ John Bevere
In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity.
~ John Biggins
Maybe there were no villains in my mother's story at all. Just men and women, trying to do their best by each other. And failing.
~ John Boyne
If the original of any of your characters would win a libel case against you, you have failed to create a real character.
~ JOHN BRAINE
Civilizations do fail. We have never seen one that hasn't. The difference is that the torch of progress has, in the past, always passed to another region of the world. But we now for the first time have a single, global civilization. If it fails, we all fail together.
~ John Brockman